The USA Science and Engineering Festival took place at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Several SHPE members represented SHPE at a booth on Saturday and Sunday, October 23-24, 2010. This festival was nationally advertised and President Obama invited the nation to attend over television broadcast. You can also read the White House press release. There were approximately 500,000 visitors and over 1,000 exhibits covering a wide array of science or engineering groups and scientific breakthroughs.
Barrett Foa and Daniela Ruah from NCIS: Los Angeles were also there in the Lockheed Martin booth (Lockheed Martin does the graphics technology on the show). Barrett Foa talked about the USA Science and Engineering Festival on a CBS Baltimore morning show.
I want to extend a huge thank you to Dora Abreu (SHPE Region 4 Vice President 2008-2010 and SHPE National Secretary 2002-2008) for organizing this event and seeing to it that SHPE was registered and had a booth at the event. I also want to note the huge contribution from SHPE's D.C. professional chapter (especially Peter Rios), Carlos Ortiz-Rodriguez from the USPTO chapter, the Baltimore Professional Chapter (Ana Luisa and Carlos Lopez), and Erika from AHETEMS for pitching in manning the SHPE booth with Dora Abreu and myself (David Solis, SHPE Region 4 VP 2010-2012).
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